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So who gets that baller MS Mondraker pit setup is it MS Intense or Mondraker Factory Racing?

The team owns that (MS), so it should be staying with them (now MS Intense). MS = Markus Stöckl Racing, they’ve had various title sponsors attached over the years, but the team infrastructure belongs to them.

Happy that Pinkerton, Dunne, and Dak all found (assuming the big budget thing for Mondraker is real) pretty good rides. That being said, mondraker marketing tried to drag this bs on for way too long. Hype it up, announce it, be done with it.

to underail team rumors, here's a thread to discuss out-of-the-industry sponsorship https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/mtb-racing-and-outside-industry-mon… and YAY DAK NEWS!

It's officially official - Dak has joined Mondraker Factory Racing. Video interview and podcast are live now. We recorded this last week, so we will have to cover #frecklegate in the next podcast haha

re: outside industry sponsors for American(and global) MTB racing. Yes, 2008 was the final year of Trek/VW because 2007 was fhe final year of USAC’s National Mountain Bike Series(NMBS) and the contract was obviously not renewed, since there was literally nothing left worth attending. The NMBS was the creaky, sad skeleton of the NORBA national series- which at that point had turned into a product that USAC first allowed Team Big Bear and then the crew that used to be behind Sea Otter to license and run. Since 2008 we have had no actual centrally planned and run domestic elite...

To me it's not just something that seems missing, but also seems very weird that it's not happening. The argument that gravity events do not draw the right exposure is a red herring, too. My son's little leage team - a bunch of 8 year old miscreants, some of whom do not even want to be there, let alone play in front of crowd totalling 12 parents and one umpire receives 10k from a LOCAL home depot .. and then there are others who only ask that a cardboard sign held by two metal wires be put up at games...

Cam Cole just confirmed the new team here and the first few partners. https://www.instagram.com/stories/camcolemtb/3286875660039391571?utm_so…

You are odd mate. The “soul” you are talking about was founded on illegal trails. Go back to the other site

Dang. I must be getting old because when I think GT, it's Acura. And when you say Toyota, it's Schwinn.

I am not too familiar with the sponsorship timelines... but I did see where Trek/VW ended in 08... right around the time of the market/auto industry crash. I am assuming the others were around that timeline. Once they got out of that situation.. they found other ways of marketing? Just a guess?

The admittedly unclear implication was that “we” derailed the thread and I neither endorsed unsanctioned trails nor demonized them. I just gave us a new place to argue about it. I am keenly aware of and sensitive to the potential for unsanctioned trails to impact legal access. I more took issue with the term eco-crimes and the idea that these trails cause any more meaningful damage than legal trails which seemed a bit extreme in the grand scheme of the late capitalist human shitshow. I will say that the original sin of American MTB occurred in a place where to...

Sir, this is a Wendy’s… On another note, I hope frecklegate gets discussed on a future B Practice Podcast.

Did the Fugazi get your 90s scene kid self-righteousness going? I mean the irony of auto makers being upset with “crimes against the eco-structure” is a bit much. Pretty fine line between the environmental crimes of unsanctioned trail building and the use of large earth movers to build legal trail. Also derailing the team rumors thread? Again?? Must be the end of silly season. Maybe you can take the trail crimes debate to Trinidad, Colorado. https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/trinidad-colorado

As I get ready for bed, I know that my excitement for what may be announced tomorrow is going to get me up a bit earlier. It's like one of those wrapped gifts you find a few weeks later that someone forgot to put under the tree....see you tomorrow.......DN!

Yeah pretty sure cam cole who was the team manager for gt factory has quite a bit to do with viris brand in nz and this new race team

New gt race team in nz, riders yet to be officially announced but i know who two of them are. Bit of a development team to get riders prepared for the future